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General Psychology
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General Psychology is an introductory course that explores the fundamental principles, theories, and methods of the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Topics covered include the biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning and memory, development across the lifespan, motivation and emotion, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Students will gain an understanding of how psychological research is conducted and how its findings can be applied to everyday life, thereby fostering critical thinking and a deeper appreciation of the diversity and complexity of human experience.
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PSYCH 3rd Edition by Spencer A. Rathus
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Chapter 1: What Is Psychology
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Q1) Personality psychologists study the interaction of people and the environment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) You are interested in studying whether preschool boys engage in more aggressive play than preschool girls. You decide to watch children playing in a day care setting. You are using the __________ method.
A)case study
B)interview
C)cause-effect
D)naturalistic observation
Answer: D
Q3) The issues of ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status are the concerns of the __________ perspective.
A)sociocultural
B)humanistic-existential
C)psychoanalytic
D)social-cognitive
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Biology and Psychology
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Q1) Dopamine deficiencies are linked to __________________ disease. Answer: Parkinson's
Q2) Which statement is <b>NOT</b> True regarding neurotransmitters?
A)Synaptic vesicles contain neurotransmitters.
B)Only six neurotransmitters have been identified.
C)Some neurotransmitters act to excite other neurons, while some act to inhibit receiving neurons.
D)None of these.
Answer: B
Q3) In _______, the person lies in a powerful magnetic field and is exposed to radio waves that cause parts of the brain to emit signals.
A)MRI
B)PET
C)CAT
D)CBF
Answer: A
Q4) A substance secreted by an endocrine gland that regulates various bodily functions is called a(n) _______________.
Answer: hormone
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) The iris is the muscle in the eye that controls the size of the pupil.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Depth perception involves ______________ and _____________ cues.
Answer: monocular; binocular
Q3) The grain of wooden floor appearing rough nearby and smooth at greater distances illustrates the monocular depth cue of
A)perspective.
B)proximity.
C)texture gradient.
D)shadowing.
Answer: C
Q4) The colors across from one another on the color wheel are labeled _______
Answer: complementary colors
Q5) _______ _______ proposes that producing a flood of sensations can prevent pain messages from traveling to the brain.
Answer: Gate Theory
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) People are capable of lowering their muscle tension by feedback from an A)electroencephalograph.
B)electromyograph.
C)enteroencephalograph.
D)enteromyograph.
Q2) An inherited tendency toward alcoholism may involve greater sensitivity to alcohol and
A)less withdrawal from alcohol.
B)less tolerance for alcohol.
C)less muscle control with alcohol.
D)greater tolerance for alcohol.
Q3) In biofeedback, the individual usually __________ when the targeted response is being performed.
A)hears a blip
B)views a signal
C)reads a book
D)hears a blip or views a signal
Q4) A temporary absence or cessation of breathing while sleeping is termed _______
Q5) Marijuana, LSD, and mescaline are classified as ___________ drugs.
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) Watson conditioned fear in Little Albert by presenting a white rat with the loud clanging sound. __________ was the CS, and __________ was the US.
A)The loud sound; the rat
B)The rat; the loud sound
C)The light; the rat
D)The bell; the loud sound
Q2) Dana liked to watch her mom prepare dinner when she was a little girl. As a grown-up, Dana now enjoys preparing gourmet meals for her family. It can be said that her mother was a ___________ for learning to cook.
A)reinforcer
B)programmer
C)shaper
D)model
Q3) Which of the following best describes giving a dog food after rolling over?
A)A negative, primary, immediate reinforcer was given.
B)A positive, secondary, immediate reinforcer was given.
C)A positive, primary, immediate reinforcer was given.
D)A negative, primary, delayed reinforcer was given.
Q4) In observational learning a child may view and imitate a(n) ________ .
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Chapter 6: Memory: Remembrance of Things Past--And Future
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Q1) Emotionally charged events that arrest public interest, like the attacks of September 11, 2001, tend to be remembered as
A)procedural memories.
B)semantic memories.
C)flashbulb memories.
D)flashback memories.
Q2) The memory in which information can be briefly manipulated is called _________
Q3) Using the hierarchical structure of your long-term memory of the nervous system you are able to
A)remember that the peripheral nervous system is made up of the somatic and autonomic systems.
B)remember that the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are divisions of the autonomic nervous system.
C)correctly answer that the sympathetic division is a part of the peripheral nervous system.
D)all of these
Q4) The three stages of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model are _________, __________, and __________ memory.
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Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) According to Piaget, which of the following statements is <i>false</i> regarding the relationship between language and cognition?
A)You can think without using language.
B)You can't think without using language.
C)Knowledge can be acquired without language.
D)none of these
Q2) What does thinking enable individuals to do?
A)create computers
B)balance a checkbook
C)understand mathematical formulas
D)all of these
Q3) Which of the following is <b>NOT</b> an example of an abstract concept?
A)square root
B)bachelor
C)dog
D)justice
Q4) The dramatic rise in the IQ scores of the US population in the last 50 years is called the __________ __________.
Q5) We tend to organize concepts into ___________.
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Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) In an experiment, pregnant rats were injected with testosterone. What were the results on their offspring?
A)There were no effects.
B)Male offspring exhibited feminine mating patterns.
C)Male offspring exhibited masculine mating patterns.
D)Female offspring exhibited masculine mating patterns.
Q2) Which of the following persons is most likely to have anorexia nervosa?
A)A person of lower socioeconomic status.
B)An African-American female.
C)A European women in her late 50's.
D)An adolescent girl.
Q3) Drew is a male who is sexually attracted to other males. He is
A)heterosexual.
B)homosexual.
C)lesbian.
D)unisexual.
Q4) Recent Miss Americas would be considered malnourished by the World Health Organization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Voyage Through the Life Span
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Q1) _______ _______ identified the Psychosocial Stages of Development.
Q2) What technique did Ainsworth use to investigate attachment?
A)attachment situation method
B)reunion method
C)strange situation method
D)separation method
Q3) The beginning of menstruation is called _____.
Q4) Children with __________________attachment show significant emotional distress when a parent leaves and alternate between clinging and shunning the parent when they return.
A)secure
B)avoidant
C)ambivalent/resistant
D)nonattachment
Q5) Authoritative parents are both strict and A)easygoing with their children.
B)rejecting.
C)poor communicators.
D)respectful toward their children.
Q6) The longest prenatal stage is the _____ stage.
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Chapter 10: Personality: Theory and Measurement
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Q1) The Rorschach is __________ test.
A)a projective
B)an acculturated
C)an occluded
D)an objective
Q2) Unconscious images that influence our responses to cultural themes have been called
A)the ego.
B)cadavers.
C)reality testing.
D)archetypes.
Q3) Which of the following represents acculturation among immigrants living in the United States?
A)A person from Mexico feels isolated living in his new setting.
B)A woman is angry that no one speaks her native language.
C)A child from France is learning English at home.
D)A man seeks out other immigrants who came from his native country.
Q4) Freud proposed five stages of psychosexual development: oral, _____, phallic, _____, and genital.
Q5) Unlike psychodynamic theory, the humanistic perspective emphasizes _____ _____.
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Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Coping
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Q1) Jerry has poor social skills and lives on his own. When he is under stress,
A)he will develop an internal locus of control.
B)he will develop an external locus of control.
C)he is more likely to develop an infectious disease.
D)he is less likely to develop an infectious disease.
Q2) Which of the following most closely matches Type A beliefs?
A)Type A individuals can change their behaviors.
B)Type A individuals need to be perfect.
C)Impatience and irritation contribute to failure.
D)Life is not predictable, so why worry?
Q3) What are the three stages of GAS (in their correct order)?
A)alarm, snooze, rest
B)alarm, rest, snooze
C)alarm, resistance, exhaustion
D)resistance, alarm, exhaustion
Q4) Type A is to __________ as Type B is to __________.
A)hurry up; fast pace.
B)relaxation; hurry up.
C)hurry up; relaxation.
D)patient; impatient.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) If a diagnosis of a psychological disorder is valid, then we should be able to predict the course of the disorder. This is called
A)predictive reliability.
B)predictive validity.
C)truth in diagnosis.
D)none of these.
Q2) The news just reported that a hurricane is headed toward your home. You feel anxious and can't decide what to do first to prepare. What is this response indicative of?
A)unusual behavior
B)normal behavior
C)abnormal behavior
D)faulty behavior
Q3) The DSM-IV-TR
A)is the most widely used classification system for psychological disorders.
B)is multiaxial.
C)groups mental disorders on the basis of observable behaviors or symptoms.
D)all of these
Q4) _____ are recurrent, anxiety-provoking thoughts or images that seem irrational and beyond control.
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Chapter 13: Methods of Therapy
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Q1) Linda was not voted "Most Popular" in her graduating class. According to her thinking, if she is not most popular, then she must be unpopular. What would Beck call this type of cognitive error?
A)selective perception
B)magnification
C)overgeneralization
D)absolutist thinking
Q2) A client tells Beck that he feels nobody cares about him or understands how he feels even though his wife is waiting for him and wants to take him out to lunch after his session. According to Beck, what is the client exhibiting?
A)selective perception
B)magnification
C)overgeneralization
D)absolutist thinking
Q3) A behavioral technique for reducing fear that incorporates relaxation training is called _____ _____.
Q4) What are the cognitive errors that people with depression often make?
Q5) Carl Rogers, the originator of _____ therapy, believed that childhood experiences give rise to conditions of worth.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology
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Q1) Social facilitation operates when
A)the task being performed is simple.
B)the task is with a group of others.
C)the task is complex.
D)the task being performed is simple with a group of others.
Q2) If a clothing company wants to sell their product to adolescents, it would be best to have a __________ endorse their product.
A)teenager
B)famous teenager
C)parent
D)child
Q3) Thomas was always outspoken in class and regularly interrupted the teacher. His behavior carried over to outside class discussions as well. You would most likely attribute his behavior to
A)his personality.
B)the class environment.
C)peer pressure.
D)his culture.
Q4) _____ is influenced by physical appearance, similarity and reciprocity.
Q5) _____ _____ schemes are rules that govern much of group decision making.
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